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One Small Step: The NPR Special, Part 1
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One Small Step: The NPR Special, Part 1
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“These folks have made the ultimate sacrifice and the least we can do is take care of them.”
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“These folks have made the ultimate sacrifice and the least we can do is take care of them.”
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“She had this determined nature– if something was right, hell or high water wasn't going to stop her from doing it.”
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“She had this determined nature– if something was right, hell or high water wasn't going to stop her from doing it.”
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Announcing Our First Location for One Small Step Cities: Wichita, Kansas
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Voices to Honor for Indigenous Peoples’ Day
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“Just when things seemed so dark, I found some light in the words of the people all around me.”
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“Just when things seemed so dark, I found some light in the words of the people all around me.”
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Raising Disability Awareness

In honor of Disability Awareness Month, listen to the voices of people living with disabilities and their loved ones in our new story collection.

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Bonnie and Myra Brown

Bonnie and Myra Brown
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“If you had walked away and left me there, nobody would have looked askance.”
2:45

“If you had walked away and left me there, nobody would have looked askance.”
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Leading the Way
2:43

Leading the Way
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Q & A

Q & A

Get to Know StoryCorps

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An Introduction to StoryCorps from our Founder
2:59
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Stories to Lift Your Spirit

Stories of School and Learning

With school back in session, listen to a few of our participants as they share what education has meant for them.

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Making It

Making It

Nineteen-year-old Noe Rueda tells his former teacher, Alex Fernandez, about his clever money-making endeavors as a kid in Chicago's Little Village.
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Lessons Learned
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Lessons Learned

After the difficult experience of helping integrate a Tennessee high school in 1964, Dr. William Lynn Weaver remembers succeeding in spite of some teachers, and because of others.
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“I think you should get half my diploma.”

“I think you should get half my diploma.”

Cole Phillips lost his vision just months before starting high school. As a freshman, he met paraprofessional Rugenia Keefe — or Miss Ru — who attended class with him for the next four years. Shortly before graduating, Cole interviewed Miss Ru using StoryCorps Connect.
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"I didn't think I would ever tell a teacher..."
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"I didn't think I would ever tell a teacher..."

Aaron remembers when he first shared with his teacher, Celeste-Davis Carr, that he was homeless.